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No. 624,7l7. Patented-May 9, I899.

H. E. WINDRATH. HYGIENIC HEADREST.

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HERMANN EMIL IVINDRATH, OF AIX-LA-OHAPELLE, GERMANY.

HYGIENIC HEAD-REST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 624,717, dated May 9,1899.

Application filed October 9, 1897.

T0 alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMANN EMIL WIND- BATH, ofAix-la-Ohapelle, in theDistrict of Aix-la-Ohapelle, Prussia, Germany, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Head-Rests, of which the following is acomplete specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings.

The object of my invention is to produce an improved head-rest forbarber's chairs and the like that is designed to promote cleanliness andafford protection to the occupant of the chair from infectious skindiseases.

Chairs ordinarily employed by hair-dressers and barbers, for example, intheir business are provided with rests that are usually adjustable andare designed to support the head and neck of an occupant of the chair.Such head-rests are used for all comers and are not only objectionableto persons of fastidious tastes, but in some instances serve, as isconfirmed by medical opinion, as the vehicle of communication of diseasefrom one occupant of the chair to another.

By my invention a head-rest of the kind referred to is provided with asuperficial covering which may be changed for each customer, therebyaffording a clean and unused support for the head of each new occupant.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a perspective view of aportion of a chair provided with my head-rest, showing an occupantseated in the chair. Fig. II is a front View of the head-rest detached,showing the outer layer or covering partially removed. Fig. III is asectional View on the line A B Fig. IV is a side elevation of thesubject-matter of Fig. II. Fig. .V is a lower edge View of Fig. II,looking upwardly. Fig. V1 is a section on the line C D of Fig. 'II.

Referring to the figures on the drawings, 1 indicates the head-restsupport or framepiece, which is of any suitable shape, dimensions, andcontour and made of any suitable material-for example, wood. It isadapted to be attached to a chair by any suitable. means-for example, ahinge connectionE- whereby it may be adjusted upon a chair in use. I

The inner face of the frame 1 is provided, preferably around its upperedge, with an inturned flange 3 and on the lower side with suitablefastening mechanism-for instance, screw-clamps or buttons 4. The flange3 and the fastening mechanism (represented by the Serial no 654,718. (Nomodel.)

elements 4:) are designed to detachably support a suitable protectivecovering for the frame 1.

I prefer to construct the covering with a base 5 of stiff material-as,for example,cardboard-that fits under the flange 3 and may be securedthereto, as by the clamps 4. The base 5 carries a series of layers 6 ofsuitable material, preferably sheets of paper or parchment, which afforda cushion upon the headrest frame 1. Thebase 5,with its layers 6,constitutes What may be called a pad or cushion for the head. Eachindividual layer may be so prepared that no moisture, as of perspirationor the like, can penetrate it, so that only the topmost sheet isafiected in use. By this arrangement the top layer of paper may beremoved after it has been once used and the next succeeding layer of theseries presented for use until each layer of the series has beenexhausted, when the base 5 may be removed and a new base, with itslayers of paper, inserted in place.

The sheets of paper upon the base 5 may be of any desired shape; but Iprefer to provide them with a depending tailpiece, which, falling overthe upper portion of the back of the chair to which the head-rest isattached, may serve as a protection for the neck as well as for the headof the occupant of the chair.

As a means of puttinga check on the amount ofwork done by the operatorsthe sheets of each pad may be consecutively numbered. Each sheet as itis stripped off with its number attached indicates that the chair hasbeen occupied and the workman is therefore chargeable for its use.

What I claim is 1. As a part of a head-rest, a frame provided on oneside witha retaining-flange, and onthe opposite side with buttons tosecurely hold a pad in position, substantially as set forth.

2. In ahead-rest pad, the combination with a base, of a plurality ofsuperimposed layers,

each of the layers being provided with a tail piece constituting a neckprotection, sub stantially as set forth.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name.

HERMANN EMIL VVINDRATH.

